The Art Institute of Chicago is an encyclopedic art museum founded in 1879 as both a museum and school for the fine arts. The museum's permanent collection covers nearly 5,000 years of art from around the world, and has grown to nearly 300,000 works, including a collection of Impressionist and post-impressionist pieces.
Housed in a Beaux-Arts style building originally built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, collections include over 1,000 contemporary works from 1945 to the present, nearly 1,000 works of modern art by artists from Europe and the Americas, more than 3,500 European paintings from the 12th through the 20th century, and five millennia of Asian art.
Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.
Explores the full range of her achievement over her short career
150+/- bold & dynamic works, including rarely seen paintings and drawings
Six moving-image makers share the planetary hopes of Pan-Africanism
A return to the Grand Staircase after a 14-year hiatus
Recasting the canonical foundations of Western architecture
A mural studies the films of two Senegalese filmmakers between 1963 and 2003
Two devices ask us to attend to our individual experience of vision
Paintings inspired by the art, architecture, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome
90+/- drawings made from the 1770s through the 1850s
50+ intricate and sinuous baskets crafted over the last two decades